Machine generated contents note: Need to Revisit the Romance -- Outline of the Book -- On Genre -- 1. Persian Storytellers of India -- Worth of Romances and Their Producers -- Poetry and Storytelling in the Hierarchy of Genres -- Multiple Sources of Storytellers' Worth -- How Storytellers Increased the Worth of Romances -- 2. Telling the Tale of Amir Hamzah in Urdu -- Storytelling and Language Education at Fort William College -- Storytelling and Shi'i Performance in Lucknow and Rampur -- Naval Kishore Storytellers between Orality and Print -- Mir Baqir 'Ali: The Decline of Patronage and the Struggle for Worth -- 3. Storytelling Craft -- Fakhr al-Zamanl: A Storyteller's Life -- Storytelling Manual and Performance -- Textual Fragments and Memory in the Romance -- Uses of the Multigenre Romance -- 4. Marvelous Histories -- Ghalib and the Simurgh -- Shahnamah as History in India -- 'Aqli and Naqli Historiography -- Sincerity Effect -- 5. Reason and Romance in the Age of the Novel -- In Search of Bakawall -- Epistemologies of the Intellect and Heart -- Equating Qissah and Romance -- Rise of the Novel -- Conclusion -- Forgotten Storytellers -- Survival and Revival
Summary
Reconstructs Indian storytellers' lives and performance methods while recovering the marginalized worldview that popularized their art form
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2019)
